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Affiliate Marketing
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What is Affiliate Marketing? The simple answer is - a system of
revenue sharing between one web site (the affiliate merchant, you)
which features an ad or content designed to drive traffic to another
web site (the advertiser). The affiliate will receive a fee based on the
amount of traffic generated, items sold or memberships created. Affiliate Marketing requires some personal and technical experience.
The below questions will attempt to find out if you would succeed in the
Dating Affiliate Marketing world:
- Have you benefited from online dating and have some knowledge or insight
on the Online Dating Industry?
- Do you enjoy writing and have some experience in web site
design?
- Do you need to make some extra money (who doesn't)?
If you answered yes to all 3 of these question then Online Dating Affiliate
Marketing may be for you.
Click on the links in the table below to visit some of the best
converting dating sites
affiliate programs:
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FriendFinder.com
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- One of the most lucrative and straightforward affiliate programs anywhere. With over 10 million current members and over 25 million satisfied members worldwide in
their network, their program has created significant wealth for many affiliates.
FriendFinder affiliates get paid over $1,000,000 every month!
FriendFinder.com offers one, three and 12-month
memberships with rates from $9.95 to $149.95. You
will earn 100% of the initial signup fee, which could be
$149.95 for a 12 month membership! But, if you don't
like that you can receive $2.00 per free female signup
and $1.00 per free male signup.
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Passion.com
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- A site from the FriendFinder Network
that is constantly one of the top converting web
sites. Maybe you have a site that isn't outright
"adult" in nature, but it's more provocative than the
traditional "vanilla" dating sites? Passion.com has all
the high-converting designs and functionality of
AdultFriendFinder, but with considerable restraint in
the nudity and language departments. With over 23 million satisfied members worldwide, this program has created significant wealth for many affiliates.
Passion.com offers one, three and 12-month
memberships with rates from $9.95 to $149.95.
There are 3 ways to make money:
1. Percentage Program - Between 35 and 75 percent of
initial the order, and then 35 to 55 percent of any
reoccurring orders of the same member. The
percentage depends on how many unique visitors you send
per day. Plus earn $1.50 per free female signup and 0.30
cents per male free signup.
2. Pay Per Click Program - Based on the number of unique
visitors per free signup. Earn from 0.05 cents to
$1.00 per click
3. Per Member Order - Receive a flat fee of $30 dollars
per order (your best bet to start out)
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SeniorFriendFinder.com
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- Enables the 40+ crowd to easily find singles or couples in their
own region or across the world. As with other FriendFinder Affilate programs you have
2 payout options:
1. Per member payout - $0.50 per male signup and $1.50 per female
signup
2. Percentage Program - 60% of initial and reorder membership orders
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Date.com
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- In business since 1997, Date.com have paid their Affiliates millions of
dollars. They have Strong Brand Recognition and superior
conversions (which means a high percentage of people who visit their
site actual join compared to other dating sites). Partner with
Date.com and benefit from their hands on customer support and reliable
payments.
Make money fast with one of the highest payouts per member in the online
dating industry.
Sign up now and earn $35 for each member, plus a $100 dollar bonus
if you send 5 or more members in your first month.
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MingleMatch
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- Become a MingleMatch Affiliate and you can make
55% of the first-time sale for any visitors who sign up as a
paying member. That means if you send MingleMatch $1000 in
new membership fees last month, as an Affiliate you would earn $550 in commissions for
that month.
All visitors are tracked in real time through the MingleMatch tracking system.
If the visitor signs up and are approved, your reports will
show your commission that day.
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My advice to succeed in Affiliate Marketing is to be honest, don't
promote something you don't believe in, and
listen to the people who visit your site. Just remember, few people
visit sites to write on the excellent experience they had with dating
and the internet (they are to busy on the dating site!), most visit
sites to complain about a bad experience. The best thing to do is
find out what went wrong and offer suggestions to improve their next
experience in the online dating world. If a lot of people have had
a similar bad experience (i.e. the dating site keep charging the members
credit card after a cancelled membership) then take note and drop the
affiliate.
Another way you can also generate some revenue is to place Google ads
(called AdSense) on your web site. AdSense ads are targeted and are
based on the content you have on the page that is displaying the ad. So, as
example my site is about online dating therefore, Google
will display ads about dating sites. To see Google AdSense in action,
check out this
page on the right. This works for any type of web site and is easy to join
and setup. Once you have joined all you have to do is pick the type
and size of AdSense ad you would like and then place the Google auto
generated html code onto your web page. Google does all the rest.
Some people make a fair bit of money with AdSense and from reading reports
on the internet, you can earn anywhere from 1 cent to well over a dollar a
click (depending on the category and content of your site). In my
experience dating site related ads generated on average about 25 cents a
click.
With the sites I have listed above and with the Google AdSense link, I do get a small percentage if
someone signs up and generates some sales, clicks or leads, however, this will not
affect how much you will earn. So, if you find my advice helpful and the
list of trusted sites useful why don't you help out a fellow webmaster! These affiliate programs have treated me well and have paid
promptly (or why would I promote them on this site). Most of our
visitors agree that they are some of the best dating sites on the net.
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